After her badass, samurai sword-wielding entrance at the end of season 2's finale of The Walking Dead, what can we expect from Michonne in season 3?
More samurai sword-wielding badassery, for one.
The popular character from the comics will be played by actress Danai Gurari, from HBO's Treme. Season 3 of TWD comes back with 16 new episodes in October. Expect a new setting (the prison) and new characters.
Danai Gurari as Michonne
Here's a sneak peek of Michonne in action from season 3 of The Walking Dead. It also features a little behind the scenes on set with actor Steven Yeun, who plays Glenn. The set stuff was nice to see. Seems like maybe they got back a little of that slashed budget that hurt the production last season.
The clip is from the aftershow 'The Talking Dead' hosted by The Nerdist's Chris Hardwick. You should check out that show. It usually features interviews with showrunners and celeb fans of the comic/show and gives a nice little perspective on the recent episodes.
The clip:
Can't wait, the whole prison saga is my favorite plotline from the comics.
And expect more news about The Walking Dead to break from Comic Con in the coming days.
So with the title of my blog, I'd feel remiss if I didn't have the occasional post about zombies. With that, one of the major zombie pop culture touchstones lately has been AMC's The Walking Dead. Based on the long-running comic series, the tv show just ended the first half of it's second season, which is set to return February 12th.
I have to say, the very first episode of this show was fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. Unfortunately, it seemed like the rest of season 1 after that was a bit of a let down. Not necessarily because it was bad, just because the premiere was that good. Season 2 on the other hand, so far, has been bad.
I believe part of the reason for this was ongoing budget disputes between the showrunners and AMC, which led to Frank Darabont leaving the show. The money issue seems to have been keyed on Mad Men getting new contracts, and the AMC execs subsequently tightening their belts through the rest of the network. Darabont, if you don't know, is primarily a film director best known for helming the best Stephen King adaptations (Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, The Mist). He really brought a cinematic eye to the small screen, evident in the 2-part premiere. When he left, many of the other core writers from season 1 were let go. The results in season 2 so far have been fewer locations, fewer zombies, and an agonizingly long arc involving searching for a missing girl, Sophia. There was a payoff at the midseason finale, but somewhat dampened by the fact that every viewer just wanted the group to find the girl dead by about the 3rd episode in.
Now I say that the second season has only been bad so far. Maybe the producers have backloaded the budget to the second half of the season, so we can get a different exciting location. (I'm really tired of the farm and the woods). For the show's sake I hope this is the case, otherwise I might bail on the show entirely.
But I recently saw this article which described Darabont's plans for the season 2 opener ( a little long but worth the read): http://www.aintitcool.com/node/52526
Here's a video interview from the article with Sam Witwer (most recently, SciFi's[refuse to call it SyFy] Being Human):
Now this really is a shame because that idea sounds awesome. So if want to find out how to ruin a great show and slowly kill its viewership, take notes from AMC.
But keep watching for now... I guess... maybe... It can't get any worse right?
